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Lingnan Prism Symposium Series (3.2): “A Crisis, or a New Direction?: Reconsidering the Translation of Chinese Philosophy”
| Prof. Sophie Ling-chia Wei will give a talk in a symposium, A Crisis or a New Direction: Reconsidering the Translation of Chinese Philosophy, held by Lingnan University. Her topic is, The Genesis of Dao Knowledge at the Beginning of Orientalism. This online symposium is to be held on 9-10 May, 2021, on past and contemporary attempts to tackle Chinese philosophy through translation in the Western world, from the Jesuit missionaries to present-day translators working in academia and beyond. Speakers will address the cultural impact of translated Chinese philosophical masterworks in the West in different historical periods, examining seminal texts of the Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist traditions. |
| 【Session A】 Date: 9-10 May 2021 | Duration: 2-2.5 hours (depending on no. of presenters) | Time: Hong Kong/China: 8:00 (10 May); UK (BST): 1:00 (10 May); USA (E): 20:00 (9 May); USA (W): 17:00 (9 May) Register: https://lingnan.zoom.us/.../tJ0qd-6srTMtHNU-LUeJ4kTgl... The Making of the I Ging: Richard Wilhelm and the School of Wisdom Tze-ki Hon, City University of Hong Kong/ United International College, Zhuhai The Zhouyi: Translating Backward and Forward Geoffrey Redmond, Independent Scholar, New York Tantra and Translation: Concerning the Hermeneutic Model of Tang Translators of Esoteric Sutras Nicholas Morrow Williams, University of Hong Kong Translating Ren in the Analects and beyond: What Is at Stake? Tao Jiang, Rutgers University European Translations of Shengren in the Analects of Confucius Thorsten Pattberg, Peking University |
| 【Session B】 Date: 10 May 2021 | Duration: 2-2.5 hours (depending on no. of presenters) | Time: Hong Kong/China: 21:00 (10 May); UK (BST): 14:00 (10 May); USA (E): 9:00 (10 May); USA (W): 6:00 (10 May) Register: https://lingnan.zoom.us/.../tJMqde6sqzsvE9AyDkgtB6IGO9... Documentary, Interpretive and Expressive Issues in James Legge’s Translation of the Liji (Book of Rites) Carl Gene Fordham, Peking University The Genesis of Dao Knowledge at the Beginning of Orientalism Sophie Wei Ling-chia, Chinese University of Hong Kong Global Laozegetics: A New Framework for Studying the Interpretations and Translations of the Laozi Misha Tadd, Nankai University Making Chinese Classics Alive: Lin Yutang’s Reinvention of Daodejing Through Translation Yangyang Long, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| -------- Organizers: Leo Tak Hung Chan and Zong-qi Cai Hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Chinese, Lingnan University |
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